Tvs Quotes

• If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

  Lily Tomlin

  Book, Television Watching, Watching Tv

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• TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

  Ani DiFranco

  Life, Art, Inspire

  Song: Superhero, Album: Dilate

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• The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

  David Brinkley

  Sarcastic, Business, Sarcasm

  "One Man's America". Book by George F. Will, Chapter 15, Lingerie and Duct Tape (p. 118), 2008.

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• Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

  Marvin Minsky

  Would Be, Television, Imagine

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• Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!

  Bernard Levin

  Country, Children, Food

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• Over in the UK and in Wales, it's nice to turn on the TV and see Baywatch.

  David Hasselhoff

  Nice, Wales, Turns

  "David Hasselhoff: 'If we have to go with the Hoff to pay the rent, let's go with the Hoff'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2012.

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• For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Reality, These Days, Feels

  "Aubrey O’Day: I wanted to make a real reality show". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.

  Studs Terkel

  Risk, Energy, Nuclear

  Studs Terkel (2011). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.304, The New Press

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• Viewers all over the world, whatever medium you are using to view us, on Emmanuel TV, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, I command a new dream to come true, in Jesus' name!

  T. B. Joshua

  Dream, Jesus, Views

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• The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

  Emilia Clarke

  Epic, Rivals, Becoming

  "Alfie Allen and Emilia Clarke interview: Game Of Thrones, TV fantasy, HBO and more". Interview with Ryan Lambie, www.denofgeek.com. March 31, 2011.

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• I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

  Shuler Hensley

  First Love, Years, Theatre

  "PBOL'S Brief Encounter with 2002 Tony Award Nominee Shuler Hensley". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. May 15, 2002.

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• I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Culture, Film, Divides

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• I love really kitschy bad movies. Showgirls is one of my favorites. I saw House of Versace and died. I'm a big fan of made-for-TV movies because those are instant classics, naturally.

  Bonnie McKee

  House, Fans, Saws

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• I don't know a lot of guys who started out as a hard rock and roller with a white stripe in their hair. Suddenly I do a TV movie and I wake up the next day and I'm a teen idol, like I'd laid on a beach in California all my life waiting for that to happen.

  Rex Smith

  Beach, Hair, Rocks

  "New Again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 20, 1981.

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• Storytelling is all about using the imagination, for me at least it is. That's why I'm bored sometimes to see movies. I'm bored to see TV. I never see TV. I see news sometimes. I'm sorry to say, I work in this business and I love working in it, but I haven't seen a movie in so many years.

  Peter Stormare

  Sorry, Years, Imagination

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors.

  Christina Ricci

  Writing, Acting, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Country, Dvds, Tv Shows

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• TV and film for me are not as exciting as the live stand-up show and getting the immediate reaction of the crowd. TV is a lot of hurry up and wait for your shot and less immediate reaction from people.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  People, Waiting, Crowds

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• I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.

  Tracy Morgan

  Couple, War, Sharks

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• Frasier and Friends and Seinfeld, they all pissed each other off, said the wrong thing, drove each other nuts, but in the end, it turns out they'd do anything for their friends. TV Land has really found that formula.

  David Alan Basche

  Nuts, Land, Ends

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• I never really watched the TV series.

  Zoe Saldana

  Tv Series, Series

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. May 04, 2009.

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• Whatever is being investigated, created or produced now, in movies or TV, needs to consider the context in which it is being distributed. It's not a vacuum. There are certain universal themes of love, conflict, loyalty or family that are everlasting and that need to be presented in a way that makes it feel relevant, even if it's a period piece. You need to consider what context that film, that story and those characters are being seen in.

  J. J. Abrams

  Loyalty, Character, Vacuums

  "J.J. Abrams talks STAR TREK 2, FRINGE, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4 and More!". Interview, collider.com. October 8, 2009.

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• Every three weeks before an election the TV ads expressing great concern about our trade policy and the loss of jobs to China and other low-wage countries. And then it's forgotten about the day after the election.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Loss

  "Bernie Sanders Goes Biblical on Income Inequality". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2015.

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• I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!

  Sherman Alexie

  Mean, Ipods, Accusing Me

  "Sherman Alexie: Don’t Call Me Warrior". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 2009.

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